JAMMU, JANUARY 18: Chairman
Legislative Council, Haji Anayat Ali today asked the
government to come up with a statement in the House about the outbreak of
Hepatitis-B in far off Marwah and Dachan areas of district Kishtwar.
The Chairman issued these directions after the issue of Hepatitis
outbreak was raised in the Upper House by MLC Firdous Ahmad Tak.
Tak said six more persons have tested positive for hepatitis-B in the
area taking the number of affected patients to 69. He said the patients have been shifted to Anantnag Hospital for
treatment though it lacks the required facilities. He urged the government to
send a team of specialist doctors and adequate medicare to the area for the
treatment of the affected people. He also demanded that a special cell be
constituted in the district hospital Anantnag for examining the increasing flow
of such patients. He stressed the need for establishment of testing lab at the
hospital at an earliest.
The legislator said that the District laboratory at Anantnag
established for investigating Hepatitis B cases should be equipped fully to
prevent the people from more sufferings.
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